(Rutgers University – New Brunswick)
Revisiting stigma boundaries: The costs and benefits associated with
stigmatized group members believing intergroup attitudes have monolithic qualities
Recently, we have proposed an expansion of our understanding of stigma by demonstrating that outgroup prejudice affects marginalized groups beyond those in the targeted outgroup. Namely, White women anticipate sexism when interacting with a racist individual and men of color anticipate racism when interacting with a sexist individual, a process we coined “stigma by prejudice transfer”. Our research further reveals that stigma by prejudice transfer occurs, in part, due to a belief that prejudices stem from an underlying ideology favoring group inequality. This presentation will consider the health and performance-related consequences of these beliefs, the perceived covariance of prejudiced attitudes, the accuracy of those beliefs, and whether other intergroup attitudes (e.g., egalitarian attitudes, implicit attitudes) are also perceived as having monolithic qualities.
The colloquium will be held on zoom. Please contact slagell.2@osu.edu for the zoom link.